One week until...

[elwen]

...Fanime.

When I first started composing this post in my head, I was only casually contemplating cosplaying for Fanime. I figured that this was one of the few times that I'd have a mostly free week right before a con, which made it good for making a costume on short notice.

But who to cosplay? My hair is short now, so Yankumi is out. I could do Honami from Rental Magica, but I doubt we could get my sister into Adilisia shape in a week, which defeats the point. I'm not a big fan of wigs or hair dye, so I try to stick to people with hair styles and colors approximating mine. The only person I could think of in recent shows that fit the bill was Shuri from Asura Cryin', and even if I really understood her character, I don't think she's the type I'd want to cosplay, and right now I don't even know what's up with her. (Although episode 6 helped a great deal, and she is all science-crazy.)

Anyway, as you may have guessed from the way I started this section, I did end up deciding to do a cosplay. As Xellos. I've always wanted to do it, my hair is as close to the right style as it's ever going to be (stupid anime characters always having bangs), and it's soon enough after the mini-revival of Revolution and Evolution-R that it's pseudo-current and not some dredged-up classic.

The devil is in the details, of course. In broad brush-strokes, it didn't seem that hard, but now I'm running into all sorts of issues. Should I sew or paint the border on the cloak? Should I get gloves? Where am I going to find the red jewel-y things for the brooch? And why is papier mache always harder to get in the right shape than I think it will be?

At least I've found some temporary purple hair spray that will probably show up enough against my black hair to satisfy me, and save me from having to dye my hair. (I was seriously considering it -- this is probably the last time in my life I can get away with it. Except I have a concert next Wednesday and my choir director would kill me, so I'd have to dye it black again right after anyhow.)

So, it will happen, in some form or another. Probably not as grand as I imagined, which is how most of my craft-y projects turn out, but good enough. At least I have a decent amount of experience at making cloaks -- including lined cloaks -- after Ditch Day. (Haa...)

Speaking of Fanime, though, I don't suppose any of you are coming?

...bar classes.

As I said in the comments of my last post, graduating from law school is not really an exciting moment because it means you are soon to begin bar classes, which last all summer. Then after the bar exam, you can kind of relax, and people usually go on a "bar trip" (mine will be in Japan). But you don't actually find out if you've passed the bar until November. By that time, at least in the past, you had started working, so no time for a big celebration. So... there's not really a good moment to be like, "Yay!" after law school. But between graduation and bar classes isn't even in the running, I'd say.

Like 99% of my classmates, I received a huge box of study materials from BarBri in April. I finally opened them the other day, on BarBri's advice that I skim the outlines for subjects that I hadn't taken in law school. ...which was apparently every subject on the state bar. (I've taken most of the subjects on the multistate, though I probably have a lot of relearning to do.) After looking at some of the outlines, I realized that it's not that bad, as I do know some agency law, civil procedure includes the federal rules, and hopefully I am at least vaguely familiar with corporations, partnerships, and professional responsibility. But community property, remedies, trusts, and wills will be all new.

I won't ask myself, "So what did I learn in law school?" because I was busy with IP, of course, but the bar exam is almost like the traditional chemical engineering curriculum that Caltech axed the year before mine -- the one that ended with everyone having to design a refinery and all. I thought we liked specialization and diversification.

Comments

[toriru4ever.livejournal.com]

good luck with your bar exam and congrats on finishing law school :D

[nendil.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose this'll be the last time you'll ever go to Fanime, eh? Because I'd like (LIKE) to think that I'll still cosplay again someday. Even though by then I'll probably have outgrown the anime part... :3

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm sure I'll still go to Fanime in the future if I can manage it. Probably it'll just be harder to know far enough in advance to prereg, and I might not be able to go all four days, etc. Typical getting older having a job thing.

[maruchan.livejournal.com]

I read the second paragraph and shouted out, "ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE" (in my head). And then I was a little disappointed.

But seriously, I would love to see a big group of microbes carrying around boomboxes with the microbe music at a convention. Especially if some people are Bacillus, and they go around rubbing their heads against things and talking with their mouths full. If you see that somebody else thought of it, take pictures for me.

Just one...

[maruchan.livejournal.com]

http://epii.info/anime/2008%20Fanime/Moyashimon%20-%20a.%20oryzae.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAAAAaaa...

Re: Just one...

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I totally saw that guy. Apparently that is his standard pose, as I have a picture of him like that, too. I think there was another Oryzae at Fanime last year, but it was more cardboard-y and not as cool. Other than that, I've only seen people who do the human characters and stick lots of paper cutouts of microbes on their clothes.

[snoflakes.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit late on this, but congrats on graduating!